Days after Donald Trump begins his second term in office, Fabiola Francois is scheduled to be deported from the United States, following his pledge to evict tens of millions of undocumented migrants.

After US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) learned of an outstanding court warrant for driving without a license, the 42-year-old migrant, who was born in Haiti, was taken into custody.

At six months old, she and her aunt traveled to Miami, a city in southern Florida.

Ms. Francois didn't find out she wasn't born in the US until she was eight years old, after her caretaker passed away from cancer and she was placed in foster care.

What followed was a decade of being passed between foster homes, attempts to run away and ultimately having none of the paperwork required to remain in the country.

“When I turned 18, they just let me go,” Ms Francois told The Telegraph. “I was in the streets, on drugs, having sex with men just to make it.”

Since then, her mounting rap sheet — including fraud for faking an identity card with her real details because she is not entitled to a government-issue ID — means Ms Francois is in the crosshairs of Mr Trump’s policy of mass deportations.

The president-elect said in his victory speech earlier this week he had been given a “powerful mandate” for his agenda, including the militant crackdown on illegal immigration.

“We’re going to have a great four years, we’re going to turn our country around. We’re going to seal up those borders, we want people to come back in, but they have to come in legally,” he said.

As an election candidate, he pledged to carry out the “largest deportation effort in American history”.

Mr Trump started his first term in 2016 promising to deport millions of immigrants, but was blocked by legal challenges, Democrats gaining control of the House in 2018, and public criticism over his methods — which included separating families at the border.

Today things are different. As well as winning both the House and Senate, Mr Trump won the popular vote in a convincing election victory that will be seen by many as giving him a strong mandate for change.

Mr Trump’s allies believe the first tranche of deportations will be swift, although they are under no illusion that this is a long-term project that could play out for decades.

There are approximately 11 million undocumented migrants residing in the US, about 3 per cent of the population.

“The first thing you need to do is let law enforcement do their job,” Chad Wolf, who was secretary of state for homeland security at the end of Mr Trump’s first term in office, told The Telegraph.

He added: “The second thing is... I think people are thinking about this wrong. This deportation effort is not a one or two-month endeavour. It’s not a snapshot in time where you’re going to remove millions of people over two months, right? This is a sustained effort over many months and years, and the end result will be more removals than this country has ever seen.”

All told, Mr Trump’s plan is a colossal undertaking, which could trigger labour shortages and cost billions of dollars.

To do so would  require an almost complete overhaul of the systems put in place under Joe Biden, who oversaw a record number of illegal border crossings during his four years as president.

Mr Trump would also need other nations to accept deported migrants and allow return flights to land on their soil.

Some Trump advisers believe the money to pay for the deportation scheme — and the construction of a border wall — could be moved from the Pentagon’s budget.

They have also floated the possibility of declaring a national emergency so military funds, planes and bases can be used to detain and move undocumented migrants without encountering legal problems.